- Guests:
- World Net Daily's Joseph Farah
- Single mom, Terri Carlson, who's willing to marry a complete stranger to get health care coverage.
- Conservative libertarian WSJ economic writer Stephen Moore, co-author of "The Return to Prosperity".
- Frontline Correspondent Miles O'Brien. Frontline's “Flying Cheap” on PBS.
- Topics:
- Why do the tea partiers want to turn America over to the big corporate predators?
- Have we reached the point where we're trading sex for health care?
- Is capitalism more important than democracy?
- Do you really want a Taco Bell manager piloting your airplane?
- Bumper Music:
- Let's Get It started In Here, Black Eyed Peas.
- Let's Get Loud, Jennifer Lopez.
- Sparkle, Rubyhorse.
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- Give a Little Bit, Goo Goo Dolls.
- Work It Out, Jurassic 5 (video).
- Step by Step, New Kids on the Block.
- Call Me, Blondie (video)
- Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz.
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Catch the Reading Bug, Monty Harper.
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- Quote: "Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Clip:
"We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.
"For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
"They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
"Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.
"I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."
Madison Square Garden Speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936.
- Member of the day was Venette, who won a copy of "Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture" for blogging:
When listening to the topic of marrying for insurance, I am again frustrated by the situation is my own life. I have good insurance coverage (relatively speaking), but am still dealing with medical debt because my partner is uninsured and has Crohn’s disease. So while I don’t have to marry for insurance for myself, I would give anything to be able to marry her so she could be put on my policy. Meanwhile we just sit here at the intersection where health reform and marriage equality rights slam into each and wait to see if anyone will ever actually do anything to fix either of these messes.
